I'm just gonna say on the whole piracy thing: feel however you want to feel about it, but hear me out. Piracy isn't a lost sale and you shouldn't be figuring it into the potential sales you're tracking in your mind.
It's okay to be upset if someone is stealing your product. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is, don't do the thing so many authors do which is convince themselves that their book would be a #1 NYT Bestseller, making them a billionaire if those pirated books had sold.
That is going to drive you up a wall. I knew someone who was *obsessed* with the idea that piracy was the reason she wasn't making money. It was PIRACY because she was LOSING SALES. And she was miserable all the time. It's all she ever talked about.
But the truth is, it's far, far easier to buy a book than pirate it. If someone wanted to pay for a book, they would. It's the same thing as if someone stole a physical copy of a book. It's easier to just pay for it than to try to shoplift it.
Get mad about the fact that someone is downloading your work and consuming it for free, absolutely, but please, please don't torture yourself over "lost sales" and how much better your life would be if every pirated book was paid for. They wouldn't have been paid for.
